Past Seminars: 2007
Z. Josh Huang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, "TBD ". Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA.
Herwig Baier, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, "Genetic Architecture of Visual Perception & Behavior in Zebrafish". Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA.
Florian Engert, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University, "Visual Processing in the Developing Zebrafish". Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA.
William Mobley, M.D., Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Neurology & Neurological Sciences; Director, Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, "NGF Signaling from Endosomes for Neuronal Survival and Maintenance: A Moving Experience". Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA.
Moses V. Chao, Ph.D., Professor of Cell Biology, Physiology and Neuroscience & Psychiatry, Departments of Cell Biology (Skirball) and Physiology and Neuroscience & Psychiatry, University of New York, "Neurotrophins: A Window into Brain Function". Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 9:30am - 10:30am. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA.
Donald B. DeFranco, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, "Regulation of MAP Kinase Signaling Pathways in Neurodegeneration". Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA.
J. Julius Zhu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, University of Virginia Health System, "Oncogenic Ras Signaling at Synapses". Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA.
John Markley, Ph.D., Steenbock Professor of Biomolecular Structure; Director of the National Magnetic Resonance Facility & BioMagResBank, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Lessons from the Worldwide Structural Proteomics Programs". Wednesday, May 30, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA.
Christoph Schreiner, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, "Receptive Field Organization and Re-Organization in Auditory Cortex". Wednesday, May 02, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA.
Aaron McGee, Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine, "A Shared Regulation of Plasticity in the Intact and Injured CNS". Thursday, May 03, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA.
Richard I. Morimoto, Ph.D., Professor, Northwestern University, "Protein Misfolding in Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging". Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA.
Darwin Berg, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, "Roles of Nicotinic Signaling in Neural Development". Wednesday, April 04, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA.
Gary Westbrook, M.D., Professor of Neurology; Co-Director, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, "Analyzing Small Circuits with a Cellular Bias". Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA. Chi-Bin Chien, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah, "How Growing Retinal Axons Decide What Path To Take". Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA. Ferenc Deak, M.D., Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine, Center for Basic Neuroscience, "Synaptic Plasticity and the Core Complex – Forms of Exocytosis in Synaptobrevin2 KO Mice." Wednesday, February 21, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA. Simon C. Watkins, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair, University of Pittsburgh, "Functional Cellular Connectivity in the Immune System". Wednesday, February 07, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA.Erin M. Schuman, Ph.D., Professor, California Institute of Technology, "Protein Synthesis and Degradation at Synapses". Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA.
Roberto Malinow, M.D.,Ph.D., Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, "Receptor Trafficking in Synaptic Function and Dysfunction ". Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA.
Mitchell L. Sutter, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, "Figuring Out What Was Missing in a Sound: Neural Correlates of Auditory Fill-in ". Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:00pm. Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA.